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Hill of Beath
Keirs Park, Hill of Beath.jpg
Keirs Park, home of Hill of Beath Hawthorn
Hill of Beath is located in Fife
Hill of Beath
Hill of Beath
OS grid reference NT160916
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Country Scotland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town COWDENBEATH
Postcode district KY4
Dialling code 01383
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56°05′45″N 3°22′05″W / 56.095826°N 3.368104°W / 56.095826; -3.368104

Hill of Beath ((Listeni/ˌhɪlˌəˈbiːθ/; Scots: Hill o Beath) is a hill and a village in Fife, Scotland, just outside Dunfermline and joined to Cowdenbeath.

On 16 June 1670 the Hill of Beath was the location of a celebrated meeting of the Covenanters at which preachers John Blackadder and John Dickson officiated. It was described as "a great gathering of persons who came from the east of Fife and as far West as Stirling". At that conventicle, during the height of the struggle against episcopal rule, the Covenanters brought swords and pistols to defend themselves against attack.

The village at this location was built and owned by the Fife Coal Company, which rented the cottages to the miners for the duration of their employment in the mine. In 1896 the village population was about 1,300. As an experiment, a public house was started in June 1896 using the Gothenburg system, with any profits to be used for public works. An initial report suggested it was helping to reduce drunkenness despite the ease of access to public houses in nearby Crossgates. In February 1901 an underground fire killed seven men. Accidents, often fatal, were frequent in the years that followed.

Hill of Beath is the birthplace of Rangers F.C. legend Jim Baxter and Scotland captain Willie Cunningham and the home town of former Celtic F.C. captain Scott Brown. Football managers Dick Campbell and Ian Campbell were brought up in the village.

The village has a primary school and a community centre.

  • Jim Baxter statue Hill Of Beath

    Statue of Jim Baxter

  • Housing and Hill o' Beath - geograph.org.uk - 739504

    A mixture of housing, public and private, looking towards Hill o' Beath

  • Hawthorn Crescent - geograph.org.uk - 48738

    Hawthorn Crescent, Hill of Beath. The 'Hill' of Beath in the background

  • Hill of Beath village from Cuttlehill road, just East of farm - geograph.org.uk - 42983

    Hill of Beath from the road just east of Cuttlehill farm. A92 West Fife link road (dual carriageway) in foreground.

  • Woodland, Hill of Beath - geograph.org.uk - 1385526

    Woods planted on a restored open cast mining site.

  • Leaving Crossgates Hill of Beath ahead - geograph.org.uk - 42978

    B981 towards Cowdenbeath, situated over dual carriageway (A92) just short of bridge over railway. Hill of Beath ahead

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